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Fear Itself on NBC

Repackaging the zombie movie for the small screen, the July 17^th  episode of Fear Itself on NBC (10:00 p.m. ET), has earned Worst TV Show of The Week

In the episode “New Year’s Day,” twentysomething Helen wakes after a night of heavy drinking. After multiple scenes of Helen vomiting, the character slowly discovers that the world outside has become a zombie-infested dystopia. As Helen navigates through this New Year’s Day of The Living Dead, she flashes back to the previous night’s party, where a love triangle with her roommate Eddie and object of her affection James went sour.

Over the past decade, zombies have chewed their way back into the horror genre with movies like 28 Days Later and the revived Night of the Living Dead series. Fear Itself imports the trademarks of those gore-filled R-rated films for a TV audience. Helen encounters gallons of blood smeared on every surface imaginable. There is a policeman zombie, an old lady zombie and even a little child zombie. A young female zombie chews on a dismembered human arm as if it were a chicken leg. Sounds of the zombies chewing flesh and slurping blood are played up as if to apologize for TV’s semi-reluctance to fully match the graphic gore of the multiplex zombies.

In the end, viewers discover that Helen has been a zombie all along, and watch as she is shot down by her love interest James. Helen’s zombie roommate Eddie surprises James and feasts on his entrails, which are shown flopping across the floor. Afterwards, Helen and Eddie join hands in some kind of undead courtship ritual and advance on a living girl, presumably to tear her to pieces.

 For graphic violence, Fear Itself deserves Worst TV Show of The Week.